Guild Wars 2

Hi,

After a short while of ele/engi pvp, i went back to my mesmer and i want to try something different. I always played shatterer / phantasm and i’m trying out some conditions.

Here the build i’m using:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNArfWlwzKqHVTmGb9IipHBHyBckUUavWJFz2FC-TsAAzCpIKSVkrITRyisFN+Y9xcBA

A few explanations:

20 in domination is pretty self explanatory, i’ll be using torch a lot so lower cooldowns and cond removal seemed a good choice. plus 20% cond duration isn’t a bad thing.
20 in dueling: basically because of sharper images and deceptive evasion.
30 in chaos is mostly because of prismatic understanding, i’ll have 3 (4 with the desperate decoy) stealths so it seemed the best choice.

My questions are:
- it has a relatively low condition damage, even for pvp (1k)
- no points in illusions..meh, i could really use an additional bounce for staff (btw, does it work with staff clones in the current meta? ty) or come extra confusion duration, but not enough trait points for that..

About utilities, i can’t live without decoy so that’s not in question. Null field seemed a good choice, some heavy condition removal there and since in the current meta i see warriors/necro half the time..
Blink then..i love it, i occasionally swap it for arcane thievery but that’s very situational.

My current rank is 34 so i’ll be facing r40+ people most of the time, i already explained why the heavy condition removal in the build (lyssa runes too, i found them really great though i could probably use something different to boost my condition damage a bit)

So..what’s your opinion? Any suggested changes?

Thanks a lot guys

I think about 80% of mesmers copy this meta build at the moment.
Swapping a trait doesn’t make it different.

so it feels more like a troll post, nuff said.

Well, it wasn’t..looking in the first page of the mesmer forum i haven’t seen a topic with this build or anything about tpvp conditions (lots of wvw perplexity builds but nothing for tpvp), so my question was genuine..

From the answer i guess the build is ok then :P?

yeah, there are many variants of this build around: conditions, hybrid, even power. Its around since ANET buffs PU.

So yes, its perfectly viable.

isendel.5049:

Hi,

After a short while of ele/engi pvp, i went back to my mesmer and i want to try something different. I always played shatterer / phantasm and i’m trying out some conditions.

Here the build i’m using:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNArfWlwzKqHVTmGb9IipHBHyBckUUavWJFz2FC-TsAAzCpIKSVkrITRyisFN+Y9xcBA

A few explanations:

20 in domination is pretty self explanatory, i’ll be using torch a lot so lower cooldowns and cond removal seemed a good choice. plus 20% cond duration isn’t a bad thing.
20 in dueling: basically because of sharper images and deceptive evasion.
30 in chaos is mostly because of prismatic understanding, i’ll have 3 (4 with the desperate decoy) stealths so it seemed the best choice.

My questions are:
- it has a relatively low condition damage, even for pvp (1k)
- no points in illusions..meh, i could really use an additional bounce for staff (btw, does it work with staff clones in the current meta? ty) or come extra confusion duration, but not enough trait points for that..

About utilities, i can’t live without decoy so that’s not in question. Null field seemed a good choice, some heavy condition removal there and since in the current meta i see warriors/necro half the time..
Blink then..i love it, i occasionally swap it for arcane thievery but that’s very situational.

My current rank is 34 so i’ll be facing r40+ people most of the time, i already explained why the heavy condition removal in the build (lyssa runes too, i found them really great though i could probably use something different to boost my condition damage a bit)

So..what’s your opinion? Any suggested changes?

Thanks a lot guys

If it wasn’t for folks complaining against you , i would have never posted my build. to help you out

Its a NON PU stealth build , hybrid ( power&crit / condi )

Wont explain how it needs to be played in detail, cause it really is that good of a build, a few hints maybe :P.

- duelist & nullfield ( use it aggressively instead of just for condi cleansing )
- safe stomp with distortion , you’ll have full endurance after
- rest is up to you to figure out

here’s link to build ,

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsa7flwzKqHTTqGbNJipCB3pCUHJFAwrV6xsdh5GA-TwAg1CuI0SplTLjWStsaN+Y9xmhJDA

empty slot = for crippling dissipation or for Empowered Illusions both have there moments

hope you enjoy it

cheerz Trip

Sounds really nice, i’ll check it out! Thanks!

I’m not a huge fan of prismatic unless I’m in WvW.

For PvP I’d rather put 10 into illusions for 33% longer confusion.

That’s my not at all expert opinion.